Discuss how to facilitate a classroom in a project-based learning environment
Discuss how to use technology to increase your own productivity or support your instructional practice
Create a document, presentation, or web-based facilitation resource
Plan how to implement your unit in your classroom
Create management resources to support students while they work with technology on their projects
Pedagogical Practices: Using Questioning to Promote Higher-Order Thinking and Engage Students
Break into 3 groups
Each group will be assigned one of the following discussion questions
What are some ways that you can integrate the use of Curriculum-Framing Questions into your classroom and student projects?
What are some ways that you can integrate the use of questioning into your classroom and student projects?
How can you teach students the skills they need to perform higher-order when they create projects? What types of questions, prompts, and scaffolds can you use to encourage students to think deeply?
A reporter in each group will record the results of their group discussion as a reply to the discussion thread corresponding to their assigned question.
Designing Facilitation Resources
Review pp. 7.04 and 7.05
Planning My Facilitation Resource (p. 7.06)
Browse some sample presentations, publications, spreadsheets and Web resources located in the CD/Facilitation folder
Access teacher-created blogs and wikis on the Web from links available in the CD/Facilitation Examples folder
Make notes on ideas you think you could use in your Unit Plan
Creating Facilitation Materials
Create a new document, presentation, or web-based resource to support the facilitation of your unit.
Save your facilitation resource in the unit_support folder in your Portfolio folder
Complete My Instructional Procedures
Follow the steps on p. 7.07.
Planning for a Successful Project
Small Group Discussion
Discuss how you could address the following topics to ensure a successful project in your classroom (pp. 7.08-7.09)
Module 7: Facilitating with Technology
What we will do:
Pedagogical Practices: Using Questioning to Promote Higher-Order Thinking and Engage Students
Designing Facilitation Resources
- Review pp. 7.04 and 7.05
Planning My Facilitation Resource (p. 7.06)- Browse some sample presentations, publications, spreadsheets and Web resources located in the CD/Facilitation folder
- Access teacher-created blogs and wikis on the Web from links available in the CD/Facilitation Examples folder
- Make notes on ideas you think you could use in your Unit Plan
Creating Facilitation Materials- Create a new document, presentation, or web-based resource to support the facilitation of your unit.
- Save your facilitation resource in the unit_support folder in your Portfolio folder
Complete My Instructional Procedures- Follow the steps on p. 7.07.
Planning for a Successful Project- Small Group Discussion
- Discuss how you could address the following topics to ensure a successful project in your classroom (pp. 7.08-7.09)
- Communications about the project
- Timing and transitions
- Collaboration
- Materials/Equipment/Technology/Outside Resources/Facilities
- Grading
Creating a Management Resource- View sample management resources located in the CD/Facilitation folder
- Create a management document for your portfolio
- Save the document in the unit_support folder in your Portfolio folder
Reflecting on My Unit as a Whole